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Nov 1 12 5:48 AM
The Power of the Cross failed? You can't be serious, Paul! It's through the Power of Cross we enter Heaven! You know NOT what you speak! You can quote Scripture all you like, Paul, but it doesn't mean you understand it!
I believe both Paul and yourself are following a gospel of works, of self righteousness that is not entirely dependant after the words of Christ and therefore not the true gospel, and both would come under the teaching in Mathew 7 where Christ says depart form me, I never knew you, as if we could add something we could do to His finished work which of itself provided all the fullness of His grace necessary for us to enter heaven as white as snow without spot or blemish .
The power of the cross is made to no effect through the many Catholic additions coming from the oral traditions of their Bishops.
Rather than His work actually effectually paying for the full wages of sin (every one) which is eternal in nature, coming from the fullness of His grace (100%) Catholic teach is was only a down payment that must be accompanied by their good works.
Instead of His work of faith coming as a labor of His love providing 100% of the grace needed to pay the eternal wage of sin, the work that Christ provided becomes an unknown amount perhaps 17% for one person as a down payment, while His grace provided 100 % for our dear sister in the Lord, Mary, as if God was a respecter of person..
So the power of the cross becomes to them a unknown portion of what is needed to enter heaven and must be made up as the final payment in a place called purgatory which is another unknown factor as to length of time or severity of the suffering that one must do to make themselves clean enough to enter.. and therefore preach another gospel, other than the gospel Christ preaches.
Paul on the other hand seems to have developed his own purgatory doctrine where the suffering comes in as he attempts to fulfill the requirement of Old testament ceremonial laws which were already (past tense) fulfilled at the cross and are identified by the law of God as weak and useless in light of Christ's fulfillment of them. But Christians are the freed men and not in bondage to ceremonial laws as if keeping them is ones own purgatory.
Galatians 4:9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
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